Comment by jamesbooker83
5 days ago
You mention a British program. I do not know about the specific features you mention, but a British company called Serif used to make very highly-regarded DTP software.
I think they were bought by Corel
Edit: Serif are in the article, sorry
> I think they were bought by Corel
Serif (makers of Affinity suite) were bought by Canva last year. So far, they’ve honored their perpetual licenses and still offer them, but it seems like a perilous proposition given Canva’s audience and sales model.
Was it Xara?
Corel licensed their software for a while and released it as CorelXARA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xara
No, not Xara --- I finally managed to remember:
Cerilica (company name) Truism (product name).
The last big RISC OS program written in BASIC and assembler. I published something through Cerilica called TextFX, also in BASIC and assembler.
There was also Composition, by a chap from New Zealand. Multiple transparent layers of any size and position, and and interesting system-wide plugin system.
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